Ben Goldacre links to this article from Australia about the mountain of paper that falls on the academics at the coalface from the desks of our bureaucratic masters. We are indeed drowning in the stuff much of which is about the creation of arse covering paper trails. We are long past the stage where we just infantilise our students, the modern university is also, it seems to me, well into the process of infantilising its faculty too. It's easier to create a form and tick boxes than have a conversation with colleagues about the intellectual content of their courses. Perhaps that is why there is an intellectual vaccum at the heart of many of the social sciences.
4 years ago: Falsifying claims of trust in bat coronavirus research:
mysteries of the mine (i)-(iv)
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Yes, my April 1 post was an April fool’s post, written entirely, and
surprisingly, by ChatGPT who was in on the gag. This post is not, although
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